I RESPECTFULLY suggest that the article relating to the ambitious plan that could be the end of town traffic congestion is absolute total rhetorical claptrap.

High powered county plans, always long term and full of traffic statistics will take a generation if ever, to filter into the problems of congestion in the high street of Evesham.

I have accepted for 35 years, as have many generations that the counties landscape is generally comprised of hills enclosing the wide plains of the three main rivers.

How this is connected to the traffic problem in Evesham I beg to ask?

The Vale's agricultural industry and its source of employment with heavy goods vehicles is a pin-prick on the traffic in the high street.

The chance of a new bridge anywhere would include miles of link road. We could not get a footbridge over the river to shorten the walking distance from Hampton.

Why are we only using one bridge that crosses the river in Evesham to its proper working capacity? The one single and proper answer to solve the congestion is to send the traffic left into Swan Lane, where it used to go well before. The commercial premises have gone from the corner by Rynal Street. The advantages will far outweigh any problems, whatever the cost. The important thing is that the traffic would flow in the direction it wanted to go, which it has not done for a very long time.

It would be nice if the relevant authority that made the big decision to stop traffic going left at Cross Keys, down Swan Lane and over Workman Bridge, could for once put their hands up and say We got it wrong.

JOSEPH FISHER, Princess Road, Evesham.